Scanned Poems - Poems about Scanned

...Now, when we were small, we were totally sure the stars wouldn’t move as we scanned the great sky, and we knew enough, with no need to know more. Did we ever question, or think to ask why? We ......

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...The fate of a crayon, it waxes and wanes, From the engrossing grip of an artist's hand, To a still life framed in a box of chains, Where unmade strokes are jailed till scanned. The sky was neve......

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...The patient's prognosis, pretty bleak, a doctor's mindless laughing shriek, an impression or a ghost so vague, a gavel pounding in The Hague, is it memory's plague?  I can never see it or unde......

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...IT WAS 1984 DURING AN ELECTION CIRO GARGANO RAN THIS SMALL TOWN OUTSIDE GREATLAKES NAVY BASE WITH HIS DRUG CARTEL AND AN IRON FIST OF CORRUPTION HE BLACKMAILED THE ENTIRE CITY SEVERAL OFFICERS SELLI......

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...The road was long, the night was cold, A stranger walked into the town. His coat was torn, his hat pulled low, His weary eyes fixed on the ground. The streets lay still, the lamps burned low, ......

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...They came at dawn, no warning sound.. Just boots on concrete, bodies bound. A flashing light, a tightened cuff.. No time to scream, no time enough. They scanned my skin, a black ink mark.. A s......

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...Pull back the covers and experience, Just how fresh and crisp it is inside, Discover a poet who once lived among us, And built community, Out of encouragement, fun and wondering Like you, he p......

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...Asclepius, one cannot build from sand, Such light and shifting grains as mortals be. The wind and tide shall warp what e’er is planned, Foundations fade before the pounding sea. And yet, when gra......

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... On entering the room that afternoon I felt the joy of moments long ago, recalling stories penned in ancient rune; saw faces from the past I used to know; the old familiar faces of my broth......

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...2025.1.24 "Time flies when you are having fun" Well, time has definitely flies in front of me. It has been exactly one year, Since we first met. Amazingly, I still vividly remember how that day ......

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...1. I received from my kind mother, Her care, her tender and compassionate heart. She sheltered us warmly in the cold, Shielding us from storms with her embrace. She would cry out, defending us in......

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...Tinkle of chime, of time, of blizzard blast. The kids are off and hope for snow to gush. The skies are scanned with hopeful overcast. Return to school where teachers rule and crush? ......

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...To the lady I served dinner to on New Year's Eve: It was the New Year, but nothing seemed new about it because I was still delivering plates with a fake smile and a shortening will to live. You sa......

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...The other day I lay for an echo of my heart The technician scanned my chest and sides I could hear my heart pant aloud Oh boy! Was that a chugging train, a distant wail, water gurgling, or ......

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...It’s the morning of a different day—who knew there’d be another? Lisa and I went on our harbor jog @ 5am—that’s nothing new. It was, like 44°—we’re enjoying fall’s cold, refreshing bite. Anyway,......

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